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Read this note from Garry Kasparov on why we’re covering the campus crisis:
With all the talk of a ceasefire in Ukraine, it's easy to forget about the ceasefire that's about to expire on America's campuses.
Free speech, deportations, federal overreach, hostile foreign influence and political extremism all remain potent issues as millions of Americans head off to college in the coming days.
Marco Rubio has a lawsuit on his hands.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is taking on the secretary of state’s sweeping powers to revoke legal immigrants’ visas and deport them over constitutionally-protected speech. As the leaders of Renew Democracy Initiative, we’re proud to be supporting FIRE on this lawsuit [ [link removed] ]—even when it means defending speech we fundamentally disagree with.
Our declarations of support for the plaintiffs were filed last week with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Let’s be clear: Supporting FIRE’s plaintiffs means support for their constitutional rights, not necessarily what they’re actually saying. For example, one of the plaintiffs, a legal resident and former student, chanted “from the river to the sea” at anti-Israel demonstrations. We could not disagree with this rhetoric more. It’s eliminationist: If Russian calls to erase Ukrainian statehood are wrong, then we should agree that calls to erase Israel are as well.
But this rhetoric is not illegal. It is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Conditional liberty is not liberty at all. The only way to defend freedom of speech is to defend all protected speech, even if the words are extreme or offensive. That is why, five years ago, Garry signed the Harper’s Letter [ [link removed] ], which stated:
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.
We believe in challenging all threats to free expression and an open exchange of ideas, whether the “cancel culture” [ [link removed] ] of the far-left or the Trump administration’s overreach in its campus crackdown.
Ultimately, we’re calling upon free people of all ideological stripes to stand by Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s words from her biography of Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Click here to read our declarations in support of FIRE’s lawsuit. [ [link removed] ]
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